Jan’s Work with AWA

*Taken from Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Schneider, founder of Amherst Writers and Artists

Jan was introduced to the AWA method in 2004 when she began participating in Sutterwriters, part of the Literature, Arts and Medicine Program (LAMP) created by Dr. Lawrence Spann for Sutter Health in Sacramento. With Dr. Spann, she co-edited an anthology of Sutterwriters’ work, Blood on the Page, in 2006.

She also designed the curriculum for a creative writing class at Sacramento City College using the AWA method called “Writing as a Healing Art.” She taught the class for four years, sharing the AWA method with hundreds of students, some of whom still write with her in her private writing groups.